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Chiwetel Ejiofor
Chiwetel Ejiofor, OBE (IPA: [/tʃuwɛtəl ɛdʒəfɔː/]; born 10 July 1974) is a British actor. In 2006 he received 2 Golden Globe nominations for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture and Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series.
Ejiofor was born in London's Forest Gate to Nigerian...
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Four Brothers
Four Brothers (2005) is an action crime film directed by John Singleton. The movie stars Tyrese Gibson, Andre Benjamin, Mark Wahlberg, and Garrett Hedlund. The film was shot in Detroit, Michigan and Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. This film is loosely...
Inside Man
Inside Man is a 2006 crime-drama film directed by Spike Lee. It stars Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Willem Dafoe and Jodie Foster. The film's screenplay was written by Russell Gewirtz and produced by Brian Grazer. It was released in North America...
Love Actually
Love Actually is a 2003 British romantic comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis. The screenplay delves into different aspects of love as shown through ten separate stories involving a wide variety of individuals, many of whom are shown...
Melinda and Melinda
Melinda and Melinda is a 2005 film written and directed by Woody Allen. It was premiered at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. The film is set in Manhattan and stars Radha Mitchell as the protagonist Melinda, in two story lines; one...
Serenity
Serenity is a 2005 space western film written and directed by Joss Whedon. It is considered a continuation of the cancelled Fox science fiction television series Firefly, taking place after the events of the final episode. Set 510 years in the...
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The Aftermath
Tsunami: The Aftermath is a Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated television mini-series that was broadcast in two parts in 2006. It dramatizes the events following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the resulting tsunami in Thailand. Tsunami: The...
G:MT - Greenwich Mean Time
G:MT – Greenwich Mean Time is a 1999 British drama film.
Starring Steve John Shepherd and Chiwetel Ejiofor, the film features music by Acid Jazz and Jungle artists including Talvin Singh, Hinda Hicks and Imogen Heap. It was also one of the last...
Talk to Me
Talk To Me is a 2007 film about Washington, D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene, an ex-con who became a popular talk show host and community activist, and Dewey Hughes, his friend and manager. The movie spans the time period May 1966 to...
Red Dust
Red Dust is a 2004 British drama film starring Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor. It was directed by Tom Hooper. The story, written by Troy Kennedy-Martin, is based on the novel Red Dust by Gillian Slovo, although there are significant changes to...
Dirty Pretty Things
Dirty Pretty Things (2002) is a movie directed by Stephen Frears and written by Steven Knight, a drama about two illegal immigrants in London. It was produced by the Celador Films production company.
The film was nominated for an Academy Award for...
Tonight at Noon
Tonight at Noon is a film directed by Michael Almereyda starring Lauren Ambrose and Chiwetel Ejiofor. It is scheduled to be released in 2009.
Based on the award winning short story Five Fucks by Jonathan Lethem, this examines relationships in his...
Slow Burn
Slow Burn is an American motion picture starring Ray Liotta, Jolene Blalock, and LL Cool J, which is notable for the extended period between production and eventual release. A crime drama, the film was produced in 2003, and finally given a showing...
Amistad
Amistad is a 1997 film directed by Steven Spielberg based on the true story of a slave mutiny that took place aboard a ship of the same name in 1839, and the legal battle that followed. It shows how, even though the case was won at the federal...
Redbelt
Redbelt is a martial arts film written and directed by David Mamet and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor. The film opened in wide release in the United States and Canada on May 9, 2008.
The movie opens in a Jiu-Jitsu studio where Mike Terry (Chiwetel...
American Gangster
American Gangster is a 2007 crime film directed by Ridley Scott adapted from a New York magazine story "The Return of Superfly", by Mark Jacobson, starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. Washington portrays Frank Lucas, a real-life gangster...
Kinky Boots
Kinky Boots is a 2005 Golden Globe Award-nominated British-American comedy film written by Geoff Deane and Tim Firth, about a traditional Northampton shoemaker, based in Earls Barton, who turns to producing fetishism footwear in order to save the...
Children of Men
Children of Men is a 2006 British dystopian science fiction film co-written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón. The Strike Entertainment production was loosely adapted from P. D. James's 1992 novel of the same name by Cuarón and Timothy J. Sexton with...
2012
2012 is a 2009 disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich. The film stars John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton and Woody Harrelson. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures. Filming began in August...
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Endgame
Endgame is a 2009 British film directed by Pete Travis from a script by Paula Milne, based upon the book The Fall of the Apartheid by Robert Harvey. The film is produced by Daybreak Pictures and reunites Travis with Vantage Point actor William Hurt....
